What is the Most Interesting Way You have Gotten a Pony?

[ponycake]

This is really weird (to me), it's still hard for me to believe.

About a decade ago or maybe a couple years before I was really into collecting g1 ponies again. Luckily both my mom and dad loved buying me them from Ebay and really expanded my collection a ton, but I loved hunting for them in person, so I told my mom I wanted to go to a bunch of places and find some and we were really determined to do it.

We went everywhere that day, spent the whole day hunting in thrift stores and antique shops and flea markets driving a really long way from home even. Found nothing. Not a single one. We pretty much went everywhere she could think of and were pretty much out of time on top of it, so we had to give up for the day and I was really bummed out. At home we were on the porch while my mom was unlocking the door and she was talking to me trying to console me that we didn't find anything when I saw something brightly colored in the mud a long ways away from the house and went to see what it was. SURE ENOUGH, it was a g1 pony. Princess Royal Blue. We were both floored. We still talk about how crazy it was. It was the early 2000s so it's really awesome that an 80s pony was out lost the day I needed to find one.

I cleaned her up and she's perfect except for frizzy hair.

[Marigold]

I love the mailbox story!  So random!

[Unicorn_pops]

Well my most interesting would be back in 2008 when we bought our home. Upon cleaning it out, checked up in the basement and found a box of ponies and tons of barbies.  Since that box of ponies, I've been collecting

[MintamenaPie]

I have a Teeny Tiny Twin Tootsie given to me by an online friend (who sadly fell off my radar a few years back). The story was she had a friend who collects Keypers from the 80s. She found a Keyper horse, and inside its compartment was Tootsie!

The Peachy in my collection is from my ex's basement. She turned up very randomly, in a box he swore he had looked in before and found no Ponies. He knew his sister had Ponies when they were kids.